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Thursday, May 7, 2009

Healthcare Hackers Want $10 Million in Ransom

Hackers Break Into Virginia Health Professions Database, Demand RansomHackers last week broke into a Virginia state Web site used by pharmacists to track prescription drug abuse. They deleted records on more than 8 million patients and replaced the site's homepage with a ransom note demanding $10 million for the return of the records, according to a posting on Wikileaks.org, an online clearinghouse for leaked documents.